February 3, 2011
February 3 is … Cordova Ice Worm Day. Whatever that is?
BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND
The news as I see it and the views as I want them.
Did everyone make it through the great blizzard of 2011? It was nice of the authorities to close everything for my birthday on Wednesday but it is time to get back to normal. Jesus is the only one who deserves a multiple day celebration for his birthday. I hope everyone had a safe snow day. As you continue ti clean the snow away, remember to go slow, use a small shovel moving small amounts of snow at a time; dress warmly, in layers, take plenty of breaks while you work and keep hydrated.
February 3, 1959 was a sad day in rock ’n’ roll history: 22-year-old Buddy Holly, 28-year-old J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper) and 17-year-old Ritchie Valens died in an airplane crash near Mason City, Iowa. February 3rd has been remembered as “The Day the Music Died” since Don McLean made the line popular in his 1972 hit, American Pie. Buddy Holly, born Charles Hardin Holly in Lubbock, Texas, recorded That’ll Be the Day, Peggy Sue, Oh, Boy, Maybe Baby, and others, including It Doesn’t Matter Anymore (recorded just before his death, a smash in the U.K., non top-10 in the U.S.). Buddy was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. A convincing portrait of the singer was portrayed by Gary Busey in The Buddy Holly Story, a made for TV movie.
J.P. (Jiles Perry) Richardson was from Sabine Pass, TX. He held the record for longest, continuous broadcasting as a DJ at KTRM Radio in Beaumont, TX in 1956. He was on the air for 122 hours and eight minutes. In addition to his smash hit, Chantilly Lace, Richardson also penned Running Bear (a hit for Johnny Preston) plus White Lightning (a hit for country star, George Jones). Richard Valenzuela lived in Pacoima, CA (near LA) and had a role in the 1959 film, Go Johnny Go. Ritchie Valens’ two big hits were Donna and La Bamba ... the last, the title of a 1987 film depiction of his life. La Bamba also represented the first fusion of Latin music and American rock. Of the three young stars that died in that plane crash, the loss of Buddy Holly reverberated the loudest over the years. But, fans of 1950s rock ’n’ roll will agree, all three have been sorely missed.
According to the magazine Harper’s Weekly, in their review of current events for the week, posted at the online publication, dated February 1, 2011, the review is as follows;
In Egypt tens of thousands of antigovernment
demonstrators, inspired by the fall of Tunisia's
dictatorship, defied curfews for a week to demand that
President Hosni Mubarak step down after 29 years in
power. President Obama urged Egypt, America's closest
ally in the Arab world, to refrain from violence against
protesters, some of whom had faced tear gas and water
cannons, and said he would review U.S. aid to Egypt,
currently estimated at $1.5 billion annually, but Nobel
Peace Prize laureate Mohamed El Baradei, who emerged as
an opposition leader, criticized the United States for
not calling for Mubarak's resignation. In a failed
effort to appease critics, Mubarak arranged the
resignation of his cabinet, appointed a new prime
minister and, for the first time in his tenure, a vice
president. The stock market, banks, and shops remained
closed, and Egyptians were facing shortages of food and
gas. The country's Internet and cell-phone services were
abruptly cut off, and the Chinese government blocked the
search term "Egypt" from Twitter-like microblogs. After
looters ripped the heads off two mummies at Cairo's
Egyptian Museum, home to the King Tutankhamen
collection, bystanders formed a human chain around the
building; armed troops were then dispatched to protect
the museum, the Pyramids of Giza, and the temple city of
Luxor. Demonstrators also gathered in the Jordanian
capital of Amman to protest low wages and high
unemployment. King Abdullah II responded by firing his
cabinet. A Florida mother killed her two teenagers for
being "mouthy."
President Obama delivered a State of the Union address
in which he begged Americans to "win the future" with
technological and scientific innovation. "This is our
generation's 'Sputnik' moment," he declared, comparing
competition with China and India to the space race of
the 1950s and '60s; the nation marked the 25th
anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle disaster. A
New York City taxi exploded, and then was issued a ticket
for impeding traffic. In China, where the suicide rate
among senior citizens was found to have tripled over the
past decade, the Civil Affairs Ministry introduced
legislation that would require adult children to
regularly visit their elderly parents. Rep. Dennis
Kucinich (D., Ohio) filed a $150,000 lawsuit against the
House cafeteria for selling him a wrap containing an
unpitted olive, and Malawi was preparing to outlaw
public farting. Iran hanged two men who took videos of
post-election protests in 2009, and sentenced to death
two others for running porn sites. In Arlington, Texas,
club owners were scrambling to find 10,000 more
strippers to accommodate Super Bowl visitors. House
Republicans sought to restrict the use of federal funds
to pay for abortions by redefining rape; under current
law, pregnancies resulting from rape can be terminated
with government support, but under the new law only
"forcible" rape would be covered, excluding statutory
and other kinds of rape. Adolph Hitler's last surviving
bodyguard announced that because of his advanced age he
would no longer be replying with autographed photos to
the continuous stream of fan mail he still receives.
Ugandan gay-rights advocate David Kato, whose photo was
recently included in an antigay newspaper article under
the headline "Hang Them," was killed with a hammer. An
Arkansas supermarket used a "family shield" to "protect
young shoppers" from a magazine cover showing a photo of
Elton John, his male partner, and their baby, and
Wal-Mart started selling anti-aging cosmetics for 8- to
12-year-olds. Law-enforcement officials across the
country were alarmed by an increase in the number of
people snorting, injecting, and smoking bath salts,
which can lead to hallucinations and suicidal urges, and
Mexican smugglers were arrested after trying to hurl
drugs north over the U.S. border using a giant
trebuchet. Rep. Jack Kingston (R., Ga.) told Bill Maher
that he doesn't accept evolution: "I don't believe that
a creature crawled out of the sea and became a human
being one day." British researchers determined that
Tyrannosaurus rex was indeed a hunter, not a scavenger
as recently suspected. A grand piano mysteriously
appeared on a sandbar in Biscayne Bay, Florida, and The
World, an archipelago of man-made islands off the coast
of Dubai that are shaped like the countries of the
world, was sinking.
-- Margaret Cordi
Important events on this date in history;
1836 Whig Party holds its 1st national convention (Albany NY)
1844 Hector Berlioz' "Carnaval Romain" premieres in Paris
1855 Wisconsin Supreme Court declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional
1860 Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st US superintendent of agriculture
1864 Sherman's march through Georgia
1865 Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln & Stephens reach an impasse
1867 Prince Mutsuhito, 14, becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan (1867-1912)
1869 Booth theater at 23rd & 6th opens in New York NY (Romeo & Juliet)
1870 15th Amendment (Black suffrage) passed
1876 Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods company, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, & football
1882 Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo
1844 Hector Berlioz' "Carnaval Romain" premieres in Paris
1855 Wisconsin Supreme Court declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional
1860 Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st US superintendent of agriculture
1864 Sherman's march through Georgia
1865 Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln & Stephens reach an impasse
1867 Prince Mutsuhito, 14, becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan (1867-1912)
1869 Booth theater at 23rd & 6th opens in New York NY (Romeo & Juliet)
1870 15th Amendment (Black suffrage) passed
1876 Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods company, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, & football
1882 Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo
1908 Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act
1913 16th Amendment, federal income tax, ratified
1913 16th Amendment, federal income tax, ratified
1942 1st Japanese air raid on Java
1942 Baseball owners agree to permit each club up to 14 night games in 1942
1943 4 chaplains drown after giving up their life jackets to others
1942 Baseball owners agree to permit each club up to 14 night games in 1942
1943 4 chaplains drown after giving up their life jackets to others
1964 "Meet the Beatles" album goes Gold
1979 "YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart
1998 Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, violates probation with 14 year-old father of her baby
Music at the top of the charts on this date throughout history;
1946
1954 Oh! My Pa-Pa - Eddie Fisher
1962 Peppermint Twist - Joey Dee & The Starliters
1970 I Want You Back - The Jackson 5
1978 Baby Come Back - Player
1986 That’s What Friends are For - Dionne & Friends
I hope we can all get back to normal from the weather now.
BRUCE A. BRENNAN
DEKALB, IL 60115
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